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  • adjective Not histrionic.

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un- +‎ histrionic

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Examples

  • There's an unhistrionic fatalism in Captain Miller; he just wants to get the job done and get home alive, but his eyes tell you he doesn't like the odds.

    Witnessing The Inferno 2008

  • Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.

    Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • -- "What is passing?" repeats Collot, in the unhistrionic

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • They had been thoroughly demoralised, she declared, under Quast's maladministration, and had almost degenerated into the unhistrionic pussies of domestic life.

    Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

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